DJOFLAEYJAN

Devil's Island is a bittersweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generations dream of dollars, rock 'n' roll and the American Way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery, they're never short of a good reason to booze. The film vividly depicts the everyday life of a whacky family, their neighbours and friends, and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't. Old Karolina, an eccentric fortune-teller and Thomas, her kind-hearted husband, stay in the camp with their grown-up grandchildren when their daughter Gogo and her son Baddi go off in search of a better life in the USA. Often hopeful, sometimes miserable, but always high in spirits, the people of «Devil's Island» live their lives to the full.